Re: French phonetics

>> I doubt every learned French speaker would render Francesco with
>> the [s] instead ot [ts^]. That's a claim that would have to be
>> backed up by a statistical survey.
>
> In this particular case, I assure you *I* am a statistical-survey-
> walking. I have met hundreds or thousands of French persons during
> my life, and the best they could do was to pronounce Francesco as
> [fRANs^e'sko] (with [s^] as in Chinois).
>
> Best,
> fran'ts^esko
>

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It's a pity you have never met any of the French people of Italian origin !
A couple of millions, I guess.
I know so many people who can speak standard or dialectal Italian.
Not to speak about all the people who learn Italian at school or on their
own.

Does Francesco exist in Spanish ?
That may explain -s-

Arnaud